 Armona Union Academy had its beginnings in a room in the home of a Seventh-day Adventist church member named Nis Hansen in 1904.The school was moved to its present site, on the south side of Locust Street where it intersects with 14 and 1/2 Avenue, in 1907 when Nis Hansen donated to the Adventist church for the purpose of a church school.Eventually the local church governing body (the Central California Conference) was granted ownership of the school property, and AUA became a sister institution to the many schools that the church operates in the Central Valley, and around the world.